Luminous material and intensifying screen for x-rays and a method for manufacturing the same



PatentedoNov. 1 2 1940 '0 t I I UNlTED STATESYATENT OFFICE LU IVHNOUS MATERIAL AND INTENSIFYING SCREEN FOR X-RAYS AND A METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING THE SAME Josef Einig, Berlin-Friedrichshagen, Germany,

assignor tc Sherka Chemical Co. Inc., Bloomfield, N. J a corporation'ol New York No Drawing. Application December 8, 1937, Serial No. 178,778. In Germany December 8, 1936 3 Claims. (Cl. 250-431) This invention relates to improvements in the Example 1 manufacture of luminous materials and of inten- 1090 grams of zinc sulphide of the purity Sifying Screens for Y I tomary for the manufacture of luminous matest o the ntensifyin scr ns emp y d at rials are heated with 0.3 gram of silver nitrate 5 t present e fo y Photographs coma-in and 0.5 gram of crystallised manganous chloride 5 as luminous material calcium tungstarte' in the presence or absence of fluxes (fiuxing salt) tempts have already been made to replace the at temperatures b t en 900 and 1200" C. for calcium tungstate by zinc sulphide which gives minutes to 2 hours or longer according as to blue Violet luminescence- These attempts whether fine or coarse crystalline products are 10 failed for the reasons thatthe salt continues in intended tobe obtained. The product obtained 10 luminescence $00 long and exhibitsthe phenogives after washing out, a crystalline white menon of the latent picture, which consists in powder which, under th influence of X-rays, that the used intensifying screen or renewed glves i letluminescence and yellowish-white irradiation again produces the same picture even t 1 u i By variation of the quantiafter fourteen days without use. According to' t of the activators and also their proportion to 15 a known process the after-luminescence W one another the colour of the emitted lightcan avoided in Such a manner that to the Salt smell be influenced to a far-reaching extent as regards q n i s} 11 9 t0. of Cobalt displacement towards shorter or. longer waves nickel were added. This process is, however; unand t also as regards brightness and after.-

Satisfactory Since b the addition of cobalt luminescence. Aluminous material thus produced 20 nickel although the after -1umine$ence is does not exhibit the phenomenon, of the latent duced to an allowable strength, at the same time t 4 the valuable immediate luminescence is consider- Example 2 ably reduced. The phenomenon of the latent pic 1000 grams or a mixture of about 200 grams ture on the other hand could not be removed even of cadmium sulphide and about 800 grams of zinc 5 by such addltmnssulphide are intimately mixed with 0.2 r m of In accordance with the present invention all .snver nitrate n 0.02 gram of crystalline these difflculties are removed. According to the ganous chloride heated. as described above invention in the manufacture of zinc or zinc- I The product obtained exhibits in m m cadmium sulphide luminous materials as activation to luminous materials produced without 30 silver and manganese are employed simulta" d'itlon of manganese no after-luminescence.

ne'ously, suitably in quantities :of less than 0.05% or course many other changes and variations calculated on the base material. Advantageously may vbe a by those skilled in the art in "the silver content amounts to a multiple of the cords-nee with prmoiplos set forth herein d manganese content. (Stoodv results are, for exex h roto, 35

ample, obtained if the proportion of silver to f fif fif g g, e manganese amounts to 6:1 to 10:1- 1. In the manufacture of luminous materials P matenals Produced according to containing zinc sulphide, the steps which comthis invention are more brightly luminous than prise providing a zinc sulphide base materlal' free 40 calcium tungstate and in addition are better from nickel, andjncorporatlng therewith com- 40 suited Practical applicatmn intensifying pounds of silver and manganese, the amount of 5 Screens on of their greater Penetmbmty silver being at least several times that of by X-rays, so that in the case of a screen thus manganese t rtion of silver tomanganese p oduced e cu toma y ex u s ca e compounds in the base materiallies between 6:1-

considerably reduced. A zinc sulphide thus prod 10:1, 45 duced has a vlslblevaiter-lumlnescence but-this 2. zinc sulphide-containing luminous materials has no eff on the p t raph c l ve having a content of silver and manganese as ac- In the case of zincecadmium sulphide luminous tivators in the proportion of silver to manganese materials having a green luminescence, the aftercompounds lies between 6:1 and 10: 1.

o luminescence otherwise produced to a. disturbing 3. intensifying screens comprising luminom degree is in this manner repressedto a Iar-reachmaterials containing zinc sulphide and having a' ing extent. content or silver and manganese as activators The following examples serve to illustrate the in the proportion of silver to manganese cominventlon without, however, limiting the same to pounds lies between 6:1 and 10:1. them: v JOSEF EINIG. 55 

